This table demonstrates that NESTs and non-NESTs show a considerable number of contrasts in essential parts of instructing conduct. Not surprisingly, there was general agreement that NESTs have a better overall proficiency in English. Furthermore, NEST's prevalence in this respect features in more real language use and higher level of self-confidence in using the language in general, and in the classroom in specifically.
Hoyle lists the following roles ascribed to the teacher in a general educational setting:
- a representative of society (inculcates moral precepts)
- a judge (gives marks and ratings),
- a resource (possess and conveys knowledge and skills)
- a helper (provides guidance for student difficulties)
- a referee (settles disputes among students),
- a detective (discovers rules-breakers)
- an object of identification (possesses traits which students imitate)
- a limiter of anxiety (helps students to control impulses)
- an ego-supporter (fosters students’ self-confidence),
- a group leader (establishes group climate)
- a parent surrogate (acts as object of bids for attention (1969:59-60)